Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation Co

60 Threadneedle Street, London

1865 Company formed.

1866 2nd AGM. 'The directors are happy to state that the tedious and expensive works connected with the junction of the company's sewer with the main outfall sewer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the passage across the Barking marshes, underneath the navigable tributary to the Thames known as the Barking Creek, the crossing of the Tilbury and Southend railroad, and the first pumping station at Five Elms, have all been authorised, and the work is being carried forward by the contractor in a very satisfactory manner. In order to demonstrate the truths of statements made before Parliament and elsewhere, that Maplin sand irrigated sewage would produce luxuriant crops of grass, the directors caused upwards of 3,000 tons of sand to be brought in barges from the Maplins, taken from a spot about a mile and a half out to sea, and spread two feet deep over an acre of land at the outfall reservoir at Barking Creek. The plot was spread in the early part of March last, was sown with Italian rye-grass on the 14th April, and was fertilised exclusively with sewage. '

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